Drawing upon international research, Review of Research in Education, Volume 35 examines the interplay between youth cultures and educational practices. Although the articles describe youth practices across a range of settings, a central theme is how gender, class, race, and national identity mediate both adult perceptions of youth and youths’ experiences of schooling.
Introduction: Youth Cultures and Education - Stanton Wortham Asian American Youth Language Use: Perspectives Across Schools and Communities - Shalini Shankar Education, Citizenship, and the Politics of Belonging: Youth From Muslim Transnational Communities and the “War on Terror” - Thea Renda Abu El-Haj and Sally Wesley Bonet A Cultural Dialectics of Generational Change: The View from Contemporary Africa - Jennifer Cole Youth, Technology, and DIY: Developing Participatory Competencies in Creative Media Production - Yasmin B. Kafai & Kylie A. Peppler Global Ill-Literacies: Hip Hop Cultures, Youth Identities, and the Politics of Literacy - H. Samy Alim The Right to Be Literate: Literacy, Education, and the School-to-Prison Pipeline - Maisha T. Winn & Nadia Behizadeh Adolescent Literacies in Latin America and the Caribbean - Lesley Bartlett, Dina López, Erika Mein, and Laura A. Valdiviezo Deference, Denial, and Beyond: A Repertoire Approach to Mass Media and Schooling - Betsy Rymes
Overview
Drawing upon international research, Review of Research in Education, Volume 35 examines the interplay between youth cultures and educational practices. Although the articles describe youth practices across a range of settings, a central theme is how gender, class, race, and national identity mediate both adult perceptions of youth and youths’ experiences of schooling.